According to critics, '''George Lucas' racism''' has been manifested in several characters in his ''Star Wars'' "prequel," ''The Phantom Menace''. Most notably, Jar Jar Binx, as Lucas himself has acknowledged, is based on such stereotypical African-American stereotypes and Step 'n' Fetchit, Amos and Andy, and "Jamaicans, mon."

According to critics, '''George Lucas' racism''' has been manifested in several characters in his ''Star Wars'' "prequel," ''The Phantom Menace''. Most notably, Jar Jar Binx, as Lucas himself has acknowledged, is based on such stereotypical African-American stereotypes and Step 'n' Fetchit, Amos and Andy, and "Jamaicans, mon."

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==Stereotypical African-Americans==

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Previously, Lucas sought to deny that Jar Jar is Jamaican. "How in the world could you take an orange amphibian and say that he's a Jamaican?" Lucas asked. "Pretending a brother is an amphibian by making him orange is an even greater insult," Reverend Jesse Jackson argues. Likewise, Reverend Al Sharpton suggests that "All you have to do is listen to the jive-ass fool. I mean, the dude speaks ''ebonics'', man." In the film that followed ''The Phantom Menace'', Lucas sought, unsuccessfully, to defuse the charges of racism by making Jar Jar green with purple spots.

==Stereotypical Italian-Americans (or Jews)==

==Stereotypical Italian-Americans (or Jews)==

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Why doesn't movie maestro George Lucas just start dressing like this and get it out of the way?

According to critics, George Lucas' racism has been manifested in several characters in his Star Wars "prequel," The Phantom Menace. Most notably, Jar Jar Binx, as Lucas himself has acknowledged, is based on such stereotypical African-American stereotypes and Step 'n' Fetchit, Amos and Andy, and "Jamaicans, mon."

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Stereotypical Italian-Americans (or Jews)

Watto: Italian hoodlum or “greedy Jew”?

Italian-Americans and Jews also accuse Lucas of racism because of his portrayal of another Phantom Menace character, Watto, a slave trader. Italian-Americans see a suspiciously close parallel between Watto and Mafia lords of Italian or Sicilian descent. Actor Sylvester Stallone is outraged about the implied ethnic slur. "Ehh! Why wusn't uh asked tu duh da voice?" he demands.

Others claim that Watto is not a slam against Italian-Americans but view him as a caricature of "the greedy Jew." Woody Allen objects to this treatment, saying, of Lucas, "The Gentile shtickicker stole my shtick!"

Stereotypical Latin-Americans

Hispanics believe that Lucas has attacked them, too, in his portrayal of bounty hunter Jango Fet and an army of clones as Latinos (i. e., illegal immigrants.) The actor who portrays Jango Fett is a native of New Zealand of course so it may be that the racism is directed towards "barbaric" warrior tribes of native people like the Maori.

Stereotypical Asians

In the Phantom Menace, the accents of The Trade Federation officials, namely Viceroy Nute Gunray, have distinctive stereotypically broken Asian English
accents. No Asians have ever played a major role in any of the franchise's releases. Only one briefly seen (prepare your freeze frame skills) female Asian has ever been cast as a Jedi, much less a master, despite the fact that a majority of those concepts of "The Force" were derived from ancient Asian martial arts, religions and philosophies.

Stereotypical Midgets and Dwarfs

Midgets and dwarfs are also up in arms over Lucas' stereotypical and biased treatment of them as "insignificant little people." In The Wizard of Oz, it was the Munchkins," the late "height-challenged" actor Billy Bart's family declares, "which was bad enough, but, now, with Lucas, we're portrayed by the likes of Yoda, a little man with a big heart and brain--come on! Give us a break! Make us evil. Make us powerful! Make us tall!"

“Woman Basher”

Lucas's temptress-whore-princess, Leia

Lucas is a “ misogynistic woman basher” according to the radical feminist group, N. O. W. “In Lucas’ films, women are schizophrenic, multiple personalities, playing either the sexy seductress, who tempts the pure-hearted hero to commit a wrong, as Leia does by kissing her brother Luke as Leia was as the Princess of Dantooine. Women can be more than temptresses. whores, or princesses; they can just as well be Monica Lewinsky or Hillary Clinton.”

Other Intended Targets

For future movies, Lucas intends to attack Native Americans, Asians, and all others whom he regards as "results of miscegenation." Star Wars, he says, is America's "last hope" in alerting moviegoers of the "evils of race mixing," contending "we need to keep the races and ethnic groups separate," he contends, "or we won't have any races and ethnic groups to keep separate." He has another sweeping epic in production, The Fourth Reich, in which Adolph Hitler grows a complete mustache as he determines, once again, to usher in the "master race." Will Lucas' Nazis look like Mr. Spock or will they have blond hair, blue eyes, and a Nordic complexion? And, by the way, didn't Star Wars also contain characters called Storm Troopers?